I just had to try. Its 1030pm here but I couldn’t wait. It didn’t fix the upload issue on the ipad but I’m going to try my phone and computer tomorrow. I’m wondering if my ipad has some stupid setting turned on. Either way its not a big deal. I can for sure manage without.
Let’s try to find that!
I have an older iPad pro, but I don’t use it to drive a Jackpot. But tomorrow hopefully will be spent in the garage where my JL1 laser needs an update and I can play with the file stuff there while I work on my Lowrider 4 beta builds.
Im down to rumble! Ill report back tomorrow!
Thanks again!
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When I had that happen I had selected the wrong COM port. 
Interesting that your 2 are different than mine. I get one with an underscore vs a txt file. Also, for you looks like the bigger file is the txt file. For me the non-underscore is the larger one and always the correct cut file. Weird. Im jealous the upload worked though!
The dot underscore "." is a Mac thing. Here is a link to a Synology knowledge base article that explains it. You should be able to delete the files with the .
I am guessing the .txt files from an iPad or iPhone are a similar issue.
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Well good news and bad news.
Bad news. The FluidNC update did not fix the double file thing (which @Joe_H says is a Mac thing which totally makes sense). Nor did it fix the being able to upload to the SD card from any of my devices. Which in the grand scheme of things is just whining. If Im making parts I can deal with that.
However, the good news makes up for it because after taking the brilliant @vicious1’s advice to use a single flute end mill, and a little more tweaking, I got one of the of the nicest parts off my machine to date.
Dont mind the ridges in the cuts. I had setup a new instance of Estlcam on a VM and forgot to change several settings. But they will sand out! Who cares! It looks awesome to me! Rough sawn red oak from my farm!
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How freaking cool is that!?!
I’m a Windows/Android guy but I’ve been uploading some files via the command line which should work on a Mac as well. This bypasses the WebUI. This isn’t the most user friendly approach, but I thought I’d throw it out there.
Example uploading test.gcode to the SD card for my LR3 at it’s IP address. Note: /upload is the SD card, /files is Flash.
curl -F file=@test.gcode http://192.168.0.240/upload
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Oh, milling material from off your own property and getting results like that is just awesome.
I saw the discussion above and thought it was solved, so I didn’t play much with my iPad today.
I’ll have more time in the garage tomorrow to test transfer behaviors.
Interesting. I mean heck I’ll give it a try!
Much appreciated! Although low priority. I’m a pretty happy camper at the moment! Hahaha
Ooh, this should go in the documentation.
That’s a great way.
Started out to update my JL1 laser to the latest FluidNC, then before I knew it I had it all apart as I decided I want something a bit biger that can sit inside the spoil board area of my LR4 when I’m not using the LR4.
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So I did some more testing. I was able to upload to the SD card with my Mac, only when in a browser instance but it worked multiple times! So that’s cool. Must be some kind of iOS/ipados thing that’s stopping it.
Side note is there something else that needs to be done to get to V3 of the Webui? I uploaded all the files from Ryan’s repo. And did several reboots and what not. No update on any device. Not sure what I missed.
Here’s a link to it: FluidNC/FluidNC/data3 at main · bdring/FluidNC · GitHub
Regarding WebUI V3, I have to say we need better documentation (Or at least I need better notes.)
Every time I update I seem to fiddle and end up doing the update twice before I get the WebUI3 working correctly.
Despite that, I never seem to take good notes. Today included.
I originally wrote a 90 line PowerShell script to do this before finding this buried in the FluidNC documentation. My script was so long because FluidNC is quite particular about HTTP headers and the documentation on /upload said you should include some additional parameters that are apparently optional.
http://wiki.fluidnc.com/en/features/wifi_bt#upload-with-curl
I’ve been using the latest release from Mike’s branch:
Yea, I switched so long ago I don’t remember all the details.
They’re a bit outdated now, but here are Ryan’s original instructions:
One of the odd things about switching is that the preferences.json file is completely different between V2 and V3.
Also, I’m a bit fan of the theme support:
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I would have to agree.
I have not been able to get V3 to work at all. Not sure what the problem is. The install wasn’t the smoothest so Im not sure I want to try that again. I guess I could delete the files and re-upload? Idk. This is a little confusing. lol
Since you already have a new version of FluidNC, going from WebUI V2 to V3 should just be a matter of updating the index.html.gz and preferences.json files on Flash.